The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-29
PERSONAL.

GEN JOHN D. PARKE, of the Engineer. Corps,
is at West Point to assume the duties Of super
intendent of the military academy
CONGRESSMAN McSHANE of Nebraska, says
that the present valuation of the Omaha prop
erty in which the Presidents wife and her
mother have each an eighth interest, is $500, 900.
HENRY s. IVES & Co. have already paid Sulli.
Lawyers come. high, but in a case like that
which Mr.. Ives has on hand it is apher lawyers
or mayhap the penitentiary
In Washington county, Iowa, five ladies, the
Misses Swisher, Tate, Mcmillan Smith and Blu
chanan. are candidates for superintendent of
schools. The primaries will be held this week
and fair count is demanded.
Mrs. FREDERICK LENoIR, of Springfield, Mass
expects to be the wealthest woman in the Bay
State at no distant day. She is one of the three
heirs of the late Thomas Balm, of Fredericton.
N. b., who left q $1,000 900 estate.
NOVELTY for Ashfeld, Mass, is sun dial
which Mrs. John w. Field has placed upon her
grounds. Mrs Fields gifts TO Sanderson Acad
envy in money and land are $4,000 besides
many other gifts she has in contemplation for
the benefit of the townpeople.
ONE of the Jubilee peers, Baron DeRamsey, is
dead, having been a peer only month. He
was raised TO the peerage when II was certain
he could live only short time, because the
Ministry did not dare to give it directly to the
son. W. III. Felowes Tory member of Parlia-
ment, for whom IL was intended.
Miss REBEcoA BEATH, Is years old, of Detroit,
is th latest Michigan heroine. Last Thursday
a boat containing six persons capsized on Lake
Orchard, near Pontiac. Five of the pleasure
seekers could not swim. Miss Beath swan 70
the rescue and conducted three of the number
safely TO shore before boat came along and
took of the remaining two.
THE venerable Washington philanthropist, w
W. Corcoran, is still at Deer Park, where he will
remain until the cool weather drives him home
from the mountains, his health being so much
benefited by the bracing air Of the spot that he
has long ago given up oil idea of visiting his
favorite resort, the White Sulphur Mr. Cor
corqn has lately been able to enjoy short
walk
CAPT. BovE, the African explorer who re-
Gently committed suicide, was with the Nor
denskjold expedition in 1882, and undertook
the exploration of the regions of the Congo on
behalf of the Italian government in lSSl-5. In
consequence Of the privations he had 10 under
20 in Central Africa, he was laid up with a
severe illness, which seriously affected his mind
and, IL is thought, he'd him TO commit suicide.
Col. JoHH A. McCAuLL, the well. known comic
opera manager. was soldier in the Confeder.
ate army. He has single answer to everyone
who attempts 10 chaf him about the Confeder.
ate flags. "Confound your impudence," he says
who made this country anyway Where
would the developed greatness have been IL il
hadn't been for the wary Who gave you fell
lows up North chance TO get rich and rob each
otherY Who enabled Grant 60 leave the tan
wouldn't sherman still have been out on the
frontier mixing with Indians but for usS Why
gentlemen, we have made YOU. You can't crow
over "a.